Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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